Immigration

[OldJoe]

I know this is mainly about America but being in the UK i figured i would interupt where we always do

 

take a look at this

 

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Are you aware of the following?

 

 

The British Government provides the following financial assistance: -

 

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Seems like it really benefits to be a refugee/illegal

 

I may just take an american citizenship test and come back here illegally!

 

Could you link to the article / website that came from?

 

 

What the hell is wrong with dealing with such problems before making everything even more difficult?

UK for example, if everything was tip-top with immigration, why were both Labour and Conservatives both wanting stricter rules on immigration in the election?

 

Come on OldJoe you know as well as I do that it was blatant electioneering from both sides. History shows time and time again that when times are tough economically people tend to either blame or resent immigrants (or other minority groups). Politicians in an election campaign will inevitably exploit that. I'm by no means saying the UK's immigration policy is brilliant but Labour and The Tories were just pandering to what they thought people would react favourably to - the Labour policy wasn't well defined and the Tory policy was and is just unfeasable. Neither has a decent solution.

 

The Lib Dems had better (but not perfect) policies on immigration but they weren't populist immigration policies (I really reacted well to the idea of looking at it on a regional level).

Yes, i know it's mostly fishing for votes, especially since Labours has had the power for over 10 years. But i mentioned it because immigration-criticising parties all over Europe are growing and growing. I just hope they have an ounce of truth in their statements, and not doing what a [government] party is doing in my country, trying to fish votes to try and shut out an 8th party which will most likely sit in the big house by next week.

I like discussing immigration since it's an area that i'm quite knowledgeable when it comes to domestic talk... But let's get back to America i guess.